Jump on up, cause today’s episode is piggybacking off last week’s team members episode and Kim and Kerry are ripping off a spicy band aid straight away and asking important questions like when you are building a team are you hiring people that move the needle in your business or people to hang out with? Why? Because recognizing the difference is an important step as you level up as an entrepreneur and small business owner. Do you have team members or a posse? Are your team members simply there as your besties and mates for the dosh and being paid to be your friend? Listen in as Kim and Kerry get spicier than a chilli and wasabi combined and chat about:

• Accountability while also protecting bandwidth and guarding the melty moments. Recognizing when we could be making excuses for team members compared to being compassionate for life and the humanness that comes with that. Why do you want team members? Is it for company because you are feeling alone and vulnerable? Be mindful.
• Getting raw and real as the leader in your business. There may be times when the performance of team members doesn’t match the work that we hired them to do. This can require hard decisions, conversations and honest assessments with ourselves and others. Unfortunately the blame game impacts how we feel and the excuses we can make to grow our business. At the end of the day nobody is going to love your business more than you do and nobody is going to take care of business like we do either.
• Graduating team members for many reasons and how not causing embarrassment to others fosters great team dynamics. The importance of realizing when we can’t help others or if someone has a ‘want to’ which is broken. On the flip side if you have team members who you would never graduate from, there needs to be a strong coffee and back the car up to get clear because you may be stepping into the posse territory.
• The leadership journey of traveling higher and higher and becoming less and less surrounded by others who have similar aspirations, motivations and relationship values. How in that journey people may recognize, change and realize what it means to be a team member, perhaps even switch from posse to team. At the end of the day, it starts with you.

In her wisdom, Kim points out the reason why mastermind groups and communities are so powerful is because it gives you people who are not part of your team or posse. To brainstorm, have hard conversations, check in with yourself and give accountability in a different way. This can combat the loneliness, avoid a train wreck and hot mess and what better place to do that than the Fire Up Groundwork Brigade. We can’t wait to see you there.

We hope you enjoy this experience 🙏

Kim & Kerry

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